Did you know you can save your geraniums over the winterby taking them in before the last frost?Just pull all their remaining blooms and leaves off,put them in a cardboard box or brown grocery bagand store in your basement until Spring.

Plant them in good potting soil andwater them well.They will soon be back to be admired again.

Here is my inspiration.Much more elaborate than mine...but that's okay.

I only used three pots and tried to workwith things I already had.

I had picked up this little Blue Bird on a recenttrip to Greenville SC and thought he'd becute perched on top.

Lately I've been inspired to have something inthe garden covered in moss. Purchased thisIrish Moss at the greenhouse and I'm attemptingto get it going all over this birdbath.Cross your fingers.

Several weeks ago I snagged an old used baby bedat the Salvation Army Store.I've been slowly putting its parts to use in the garden.I'm using the springs to camouflage this uglymetal door of my gardening shed.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

This past week while I was taking some time off from work,I traveled home to see my Mom for Mother's Day.I took a quick detour at Crossville to visit one of my favoriteshops, the RUSTY ROOSTER.I wanted to add another cat to myCatbird Garden.

I've been collecting cat statues as long as I'vebeen gardening at Buttermilk Cottage,about six years now.

I don't buy just any statue, it has to speak to me.

This is the first one I ever purchased, in fact,I got this onebefore we moved.

I Love Birds!

I LOVE CATS

GARDEN QUOTE

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.~W.E.Johns

GARDEN QUOTE

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson

BUTTERMILK COTTAGE

Home Sweet Home

GARDEN QUOTE

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs.C.W. Earle

THE CATBIRD

RAIN DANCE

Bring It On!

GARDEN QUOTE

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. ~Lewis Gannit

DIGGING IN THE DIRT

What fun...what fun!

2009 TREE STREET GARDEN TOUR

Peek Into My Back Yard

DIXIE

My little blind and deaf kitty

Most Wanted!

GARDEN QUOTE

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. ~W.C.Sellar & R.T. Yeatman